Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1887-05-11
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EDITORS INDEX: Your editorial no.
tice of my recent shipment OF stock
leads me to think that perhaps your
readers would be interested in a few
facts which have recently gathered in
in regard to Holstein cattle. I have
visited three or four prominent herds
during my late trip. The herd of Smith,
Powell & Lamb, of Syracuse, is perhaps
one of the finest and largest herds of
Holstelns in this country. The Neither
land family in their herd are making
the best butter record of any class of
cows either of this or any other breed.
Clotilda 4th, four-year-old, makes
1881 lbs of butter in a week they have
several cows of this breed that have
made over 20 lbs. per week. Clotilda
gave 26, 02l3 lbs. of milk in one year.
Clotilda End, four years old, gave 3D.
COZ lbs. of milk in one year.
Netherland Prince, the bull that
heads this herd, is considered one of the
most valuable animals of any breed of
cattle in this country. One of the firm
told me while there, that they can sell
every calf sired by this animal at prices
ranging from 500 upwards. They have
sold four during the past summer at
s., 900 each. .f
E. G. Stevens, of Attica, has recent
ly bought at auction the cow DeVries
formerly owned by J. w. Stillwell & Co.,
of Troy, o., which he paid 81 $50. This
cow gave, in one month last year, O.
404 lbs. of milk, which made l2I lbs. u
OF. of butter. In one week. from July
9Th To July 18th, she made 80 lbs. of but
ter. Mr.. Stevens also paid $40 for an
other COW, and $3.50 for another at this
auction, and, he is a prominent breed
er of IIOlsteiRs and knows their value.
Mr.. Dallas Ii. Whipple, Cuba, n. Y,
has cow, Peetertej End, that is now
making a record ahead of anything that
has yet been tested. She is on her sec
ond month Of trial. The first % days
she gave 2, 454 lbs. Z OF. of milk. This
was on dry feed. during February and
March. Is will thus be seen that she
gave so lbs. more of milk in % days
than DeVries gave in 80 days, and the
latter was made in June and July when
on grass and grain. Mr.. Whipple's
cow gave 81 lbs. o OF. of milk in one
| day the average of the whole % DAYS
81 lbs. 10i o.; for six consecutive DAYS
she gave over 20 lbs, of milk each day.
Milla, a two-year-old heifer from this
cow, is on her tenth month of trial since
her last calf, and she has already given
Is, l64 lbs. 10 OF. of milk. Her largest
days record was 60 lbs; IA OF: The aver
age per day was 40 lbs. l44 or. She
gave 20 lbs, in one day before she was
two years old. This is said to be the
largest record of any heifer of her age
| yet made. These cows will be tested
| for butter during the coming summer.
purchased bull calf of Mr.. Whipple,
of which Milla is the dam, and the sire
was Netherland Duke, half brother
to Netherland Prince. The sire of
Netherland Duke, Prince of Edam. was
imported by Smith, Powell s. Lamb,
and it was the opinion of this firm that
he was the best bull in the Netherlands
at the time they bought him. It seems
that his descendants are making as
good records as those made by the, de-
Scendants of Netherland Prince. Mr..
| Whipple sold Netherland Duke last
fall for 81 900 at auction in Chicago.
Now, if the farmers of Barber county
knew the value of the Holstein cattle
for milk, butter and beef, they would
prize them far more they do now. A
grade Holstein of this stock will give
| LHO VI IlI0c Ill1OS DIS U1ucu nllh as or
binary cows on but little more feed.
and will make third more beef. A
grade heifer calf from one of the best
HolStein families is worth two or three
times as much as from native stock.
Some of the best Holstein COWS will
make more than six times ahe
milk and butter of ordinary COWS and
will sell for more than six times. as
much money when offered for sale.
Ten thousand dollars would not buy
some of the Holsteins now ownedi by
some of our best breeders. 49,,
/ am sending to my farm bull, Kol-
oruma Boy, that is from one Of the
best HOlstein families in this country,
and he gets the best stock. He was
sired by Dan Webster. he by Billy ,BO-
lyme, one of the finest beef bulls in any
country. Bis dam was a direct de-
scendant from Rip Van Wrinkle, the
sire of Echo, a COW that $50, 900 was of
fered for and refused. She gave =, 400
pounds of milk in a year, record
which had never been beaten at the
time it was made. E. p. MILLER.
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